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JDavies23
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Data Exploding when adding a measure to a table

Hi All,

Please see below simplified PBIX showing the issue I am facing.

Exploding Table.pbix (20.2 KB)

I have two tables, with the example extracting [ID] and [REG] from the Parent table and [ID] and [TEXT] coming from the child table. As you can see from the below, the relationship is identifying the two [ID] columns and joining them as expected.

 

JDavies23_2-1679491274859.png

However, When I go to add a measure to the table, the data explodes showing repeating data from the parent table, as shown below:-

JDavies23_4-1679491350338.png

 

 

Any help in preventing this from happening is appreciated.

Thanks.

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Yashh
Helper II
Helper II

Hello @JDavies23 

 

Try using slicer for Text. as shown in the picture.

 

Yashh_0-1679492397673.png

 

Best regards

Yashh 

 

If you find this usefule please give kudoos and mark it as solution if I answered your question.

Hi, 

 

Thanks for your response, however, the desired outcome would be that when I bring [Units] in to the table, I would have '1' at the end of every row where applicible (Not ID 5). 

IDREGIDTEXTUnits

1

aaa

1

Line1

1
1aaa1Line21
1aaa1Line31
2bbb2Line11
2bbb2Line21
3ccc3Line11
4ddd4Line11
5eee   

 

On your example, I would be missing the rows with 'Line2' and 'Line3', which I want to be showing.

 

Hope that makes sense.

 

Thanks

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